And The Advdenture Continues

Diana's Love and Bruce's Sacrifice

Well, My little Ismena
Olympia or I.O. The preceding stories are a historical account of
the history of the history of your family. These are just a few of
the stories that I will be telling you as bedtime story.

It has been about one
month since both Luthor and Darkseid disappeared. I say this because
Luthor has a bad habit of showing up even when we think he won’t.

It has also been as long
since Bruce gave the criminals that helped out in fighting Darkseid.
I think that he ruing the day he gave said criminals a five minute
head start. The reason is there are ones who figured out how to lay
low. Then there were the ones who, because of their powers or their
egos would not allow them to stay hid. When I say their powers would
not allow them to do this, what I mean is, for instance, The Atomic
Skull. Joseph Martin is radioactive was easy to find due to this.

Then there were the ones
like Giganta. She could have easily have gotten away but did not.
As I was looking for some of the other villains, I found her in a
coffee shop down the street. I went in to try to capture her but
could not because she said she wanted to be captured by The Flash.

Time marched on.

Clark and Lois got
married and I was genuinely happy for them. The relationship between
John and

Mari had finally run its
course and he finally came to his senses when he went back to
Shayera.

J’onn went back to his
wife and kids but has resolved to be on reserved status.

Flash is still single but
he is, I think, getting closer and closer to commitment. He just
recently started to date Linda Park.

Oliver had just recently
asked Dinah to marry him. Victor had done the same with Helena.

Bruce and I had recently
decided to take our relationship to the next level. I had been able
to be patient and wear him down to get him to come off of his rules
about dating within the team.

As a gift to Clark and
Lois, I had gotten my mother to allow them to have their honeymoon on
one of Themyscira’s outer islands.

It was your normal run of
the mill day. I was on monitor duty with Flash. What can I say, the
man is what the people in Man’s World call a comedian. As we were
on our twelve hour shift and paying attention to the many emergencies
going on around the world, he had me laughing so hard, I almost had
to leave to go a relieve myself.

One of the missions that
we kept our eyes on was Bruce’s latest skirmish with the Joker. A
few days back, he had escaped from Arkham and was running amok and
terrorizing Gotham.

It was getting late in
our shift. The next people that would be coming on were Green Arrow
and Shayera.

As they came on shift a
message came in from Gotham. It was Alfred, he was calling in for
help.

pressed the button and
asked, “What is the problem, Alfred.”

He said, “Miss Diana,
Master Bruce has disappeared.”

I asked, “Is that not
his MO?”

He came back with, “No,
not like this. He usually keeps in radio contact.”

I said, “I have just
gotten off of monitor duty was on my way in anyway.”

Flash was still there
with me and said the he would come with me. I thought that would be
a good idea. I felt like his speed would be a great asset to us.

We teleported straight
into the Bat-Cave where I saw that Batgirl and Robin were there.

Flash asked, “Where is
Nightwing?”

Robin said, “There was
a big prison break in Bludhaven and he is helping to clean it up.”

She said, “There was a
problem with at Arkham and he was investigating.”

The Flash asked, “How
long has it been since you have heard from old Bats.”

Robin said, “It’s
been about twenty-four hours.” Haven’t the police looked for
him?”

Batgirl said, “They
are stretched to the limit in trying to get the cells in Arkham
filled up.”

She continued, “The
have not even had the chance to search for clues in Arkham.”

The first thing that we
had to do was to go and search in Arkham. It was decided that Flash
and myself would go and search the asylum.

When we arrived at
Arkham, the first thing that we found was the office of the head
administrator of the hospital. As we searched the office we found an
address. Ironically, the address was an apartment in a place called
crime alley. I did not know it until this point, this was the
birthplace of the Batman.

There was little to
nothing else left in terms of clues inside Arkham. We searched it
anyway. We did not find anything else until we went into the sewer.
There was the body of Killer Crock, the most interesting thing was he
was holding a bat-a-rang. I let me amend this, he was not holding
the bat-a-rang, it was more like is was sticking out of his choice.

This did not make sense
because both Flash and I knew how Bruce loathes killing people.
Sure, he is scary and intimidating as Batman. He would intimidate and
rough them up but he never kill.

So we went to the address
in crime alley. When we arrived and went into the apartment, we
found it in much same the condition as the administrators office at
Arkham. The main clue that was found there was a miniature
recording device of the type that I knew that Bruce carried on his
belt.

When we got back the
Bat-Cave, we listen to the recording. As we listened to it, we found
several things out. The first is Lex Luthor is back. Next, he and
the Joker have entered into another partnership along with Cheetah.
Also, it sounded like they were torturing him.

We needed to find out
where they were an quickly before they killed Batman. We started to
put things together. We called Superman who was in South America
dealing with a hurricane. He was just finishing up with the cleanup.
With in five minuted he was here. We told him the situation.

Superman asked, “Have
you searched the docks?”

I said, “No.”

Batgirl said, “Yes we
have.”

Clark said, “I do not
think that he is in Gotham. I recognize those docks, that is
Metropolis.”

He reached into the
pocket in his cape and took out his cell. He dialed a number. He
talked, “ Hello, Lois. Yes I am fine. I am in Gotham and Bruce has
gone missing. I know that you are doing a story on corruptions in the
dock workers union. Lex is back and he, The Joker, and the Cheetah
have kidnaped Bruce. They are torturing him and I think that he could
be down at the Metropolis docks. We will be there soon but I would
like it if you could scout out the situation for us. Thanks, Lois.
See you then. Goodbye.”

So I said, “I guess we
are heading for Metropolis.”

Kal said, “Yes.” He
also said that were going to meet Lois at the docks because this was
the most likely place where we would find Bruce.

So, we all got into the
teleporter that was in the cave and we went up to the Watchtower.
Then, we had Mr Terrific beam us down to the Metropolis docks we had
him hone in on Lois’ position.

We materialized right
behind Lois. She nearly jumped out of her skin. Kal lips turned into
a lopsided grin. There were not many time is which anyone could
sneak up on Lois. When it happened, it was something that was to be
smiled at..

She turned around and
said, “I really wish that you would not do that.”

Kal said, “I know, but
it would take away the only real chance at surprising you.”

She said, “Oh, You are
really bad, aren’t you.” He said, “I have to be me.”

Batgirl asked, “Well,
Miss Lane, what do you have?”

Lois said, “Apparently,
this is one of a handful of locations that Clark had not gotten
around to destroying.” He said, “I would have had I known that
it existed.”

She continued, “If you
will kindly focus your attend over there.”

She pointed at a doorway
that was being guarded by some robots along with a few street thugs.
She said, “As I was nosing around, I got to this point and saw all
this security around this ramshackle warehouse and thought that it
looked strange. I went around the corner of the building and looked
in the window and saw that they have Bruce in there tied to a lie
detector. He is also tied to an electric generator which is, I
deduced, set up to send an electric current through him whe he lies.”
I asked, “ How does he look, physically?”

Knowing who she is and
how she works, Clark told Lois to stay outside and and hang back for
her safety. Hundred of the robots the The problem is he knew, good
and well, that she was not going to liste to him.

We went into the building
and had a time because Luthor ha several hundred of the robots that
Luthorcorp and WayneTech developed together. Somehow he had made
much tougher than they had been the last time Superman and Batman
fought, a few years back.

We went in and ran into
our first surprise. Harley came bouncing in on her pogo stick. Tim
said, “Don’t worry, I got this one is mine.” He fired off he
grapple and went after Harley.

I saw Mercy on a catwalk
and pointed it out. I saw Barbara reach for her belt. I assumed she
was reaching for a grapple and was going to go after Mercy.

I turned my attention to
the robots. Clark had started to pound away at the robots flash had
disappeared off somewhere. About thirty minutes later Superman And I
had finished mopping up the robots.

As we were finishing up,
Flash had returned from wherever he had gotten of to. He said that
he had found where they had taken Batman,\. As he had aid this, Both
Batgirl and Robin had returned. They said they had captured Mercy
and Harley. They left them with Lois and told her if they gave her
any problems she had permission to take steps to keep them in line.

We all agreed the batclan
would take down the Joker. both Batgirl and Robin did not want us to
be exposed to the Joker’s gas. I went after Cheetah and Superman
headed for Lex.

I said to Cheetah, “You
do know that you will be defeated.”

She answered back, “ We
will see.”

I threw her into a wall
and nearly brought the building down but that should not surprise for
it was a building which had look to have been on its last legs,
anyway. She came back at men and threw me out of a window. After
which I landed a few feet away from Lois and the captured criminals.
She followed me out of the window and was about to pounce. This was
when I grabbed my lasso and got it around her. I, then, slung her so
that she hit the side of another warehouse. It turns out all of the
warehouses where we are located were owned by Lex. It means I did
not feel I had to be real careful.

I wrapped her up, left
her with Lois, and went back into the building. I found out that
Superman had wrapped up Mr. Luthor and had radioed the Watchtower for
a stretcher. After we had done this, we teleported back to the
Watchtower.

When we arrived back to
the Watchtower, Bruce immediately went into surgery.

Since she had, at one
time, dated Bruce and was currently married to Clark, she wanted to
come with us to sit in the waiting room. I went back to Gotham to
give Alfred and the others an update. We knew the, at some point,
would want to come a visit. This is when I decided to take Alfred
with me when I returned. It was decided that Dick, who had, had his
problems with Bruce, would come back with Alfred and I while Tim and
Barbara would stay back. Furthermore, it was decided Tim would head
over to Bludhaven to takes Dick’s patrol for the night. He would
come the next night.

So Alfred, Dick, and I
headed for the transporters in the cave to back to the Watchtower.
When the three of us arrived back at the Watchtower Bruce’s
operation was apparently a success and he was resting comfortably.
The had given him some pain medicine to alleviate the pain.

As it turns out, there
was nothing going on in either Gotham or Bludhaven so at about eight
in the morning both Tim and Barbara came up to see Bruce.

We had a big decision to
make. The decision was what to do with Bruce after he was released.
We all knew how Bruce thought. It would not matter if he was not at
one-hundred percent that he would want to be out there defending his
city. After Tim and Barbara finished their respective visits, we had
to have a meeting. Superman brought the meeting to order.

He said, “We know why
we are here. We have to decide how to treat Bruce’s recovery.”

Barbara said, “Well, we
certainly can’t take him back to Gotham because the temptation is
too great.”

Clark chimed in, “I
think that can be said about just about any place on earth, even
Smallville.”

I spoke up and said, “I
could take him to Themyscira.”

John asked, “Your
mother would allow this?”

I said, “Since the time
when Shayera helped me it Tartarus, I think she would.”

Shayera asked, “What
about the whole getting back to Gotham thing.”

I countered with, “We
could take away any type of communication device that would allow him
to contact the Watchtower. He would not be able to have a laptop”

Clark said, “We know
how resourceful Bruce is if he is given free reign, even on
Themyscira.”

I said, “I can have my
mother give him around the clock guards.”

With that settled, the
conversation turned to his rehabilitation. I asked Clark if he could
come to Themyscira and build Bruce a gym with at training room . He
sad that he could. I put it to Barbara and the rest that Phillipus
and I would be training him.

With that settled, we all
went back to the observation room to see how Bruce was doing. He
happened to be awake so Dick and I went in to tell him what has
happened what was decided upon in the meeting.

Bruce said, “I have a
feeling you have had a meeting about me.”

I said, “Yes.”

He said, “and...”

I went on, “It has been
decided that, for your own safety, you will be coming with me to
Themyscira..”

He said, “I assume
there is more.”

Dick added, “Because we
know how you feel about the mission and you would try to be “out
there” you will not be allowed to have a radio or any type of
electronic device. We could see the anger building in his eyes. I
said, “Go ahead and get angry, get it out of your system because
the decision has been made and we will not be changing our minds.”

It was an hour later,
there was cursing and other unsavory utterances like calling my
mother a female dog. I did not understand this because the dog is a
mans best friend and I knew about Kal’s dog Krypto and liked him.
Dick explained that it was a demeaning curse that was often used
against women.

After he had closed his
mouth, I asked, “Are you quite done?” He nodded.

I went on to say,
“Furthermore, Epione will become your physician and when she deems
that you are healthy enough, you will be allowed to start training to
sharpen your skills for your eventual return to Gotham.”

He asked, “What about
Gotham, it still needs the Batman?”

Dick spoke up, “I will
be stepping in as an able, temporary replacement until your return.”

Bruce asked, “What
about Bludhaven?”

Dick continued, “I have
asked Tim to be my temporary replacement.”

It was then that I spoke
up again, “It has also been decided that when it is time, Clark
will come to the island on which we will put you and build a gym with
a weight room, a running track, swimming pool, basketball court, and
a sparring room.”

He was suitably
impressed. He asked, “Who will be my trainers?”

I said, “They will be
Phillipus and myself.”

Dick spoke and added,
“Diana, I know The one true master who is a female master of the
martial arts. She did a good job adding to the training that Bruce
gave me. I am sure that if I ask her, she will help train Bruce.”

Diana said, “Thank you
Dick.”

So, Dick, Tim, and
Barbara went back to Gotham to start to prepare for the temporary
change, I went to Themyscira to talk to my mother, and Bruce wen back
to sleep.

I landed on Themyscira an
was greeted by Phillipus, who then took me into see my mother. She
said, “Diana, I was not expecting you to come and visit.”

I said, “This is not a
personal visit, I was hoping that one of my friends from the League
could come her an recover from the serious injuries that he has had.”

She asked, “Is it the
man who is your love interest?”

I said, “Yes.”

She asked, “What has
happened to him.”

I answered, “He was
captured by some really bad men and tortured almost unto death.”

I went on, “The reason
that I am asking this is this a driven man. He had a pretty harsh
event happen to him. When he was eight years old, we witnessed with
his eyes, his parents murder. Because of this event, he has donned
the costume that you have seen on him. He has put onto himself the
safety of the people of his city, Gotham City. His goal is to not
have any eight year old go through what he had.”

My mother said, “You
have told us his history, you still have not told us why you want to
bring him here.”

I continued, “Him being
as driven as he is, the man might want to go do his job before he is
entirely healed. We debated on places that we could bring him where
it would not be possible for him to find his way back to his city.
Even if we took away all the technology he is bright enough to find a
way back to his city.”

My mother finally put it
together, “You and his other friends want to bring him to a place
where he has no shot of going back to his city before he is fully
healed.”

So, my mother said yes
but we have to take this before the Senate. This we did and after a
few hours of debate, level heads won out along with human compassion.
They, unanimously, voted to allow this.

I went back to the
Watchtower to see how Bruce was and if the doctors had deemed him the
ability to travel. They did.

When I arrived there,
Alfred was in with him. He came out and talked to me.

He said, “I have
brought him several changes of clothes.” When I looked in the
room, I saw about twenty suitcases. It was then that I started to
think that it might be more trouble than its worth for us to do this
but it had been already decided.

I asked him, “Where is
Kal?”

He said, “I do believe
that he is on his way back from Smallville.”

It was at that point, Kal
came strolling down the hall. He asked, “Is everything set?”

I said, “Yes.”

We then started to load
everything into the Javelin. After we finished loading his luggage,
we, then, preceded to carefully load Bruce. Then we took off.

We were flying very
carefully as to disturb Bruce as little as possible.

As we landed on the outer
island that was chosen for him, my mother, Phillipus, Epione and
Euclea were waiting for us.

After we had unloaded
everything, including Bruce, Kal went a few hundred yards away and
started to build the gymnasium. This only took him around a few
hours do complete. He, then, left to go and get all of the implements
that were going to be needed for Bruce to get back into “Batman”
shape.

After we got Bruce
settled in, Bruce said he wanted to see my mother, and I for he said
he wanted to return something to the Amazons. My mother, Phillipus,
and I went in to see him and he had this cedar box gold on the
corners.

He said, “I would guess
that you are wondering why I wanted to see you.” I said, “Yes.”
He went on, “As Diana will attest, I am the owner and major
stockholder in a major multibillion dollar company. These funds
allow me to do a great deal in the philanthropic area, meaning I can
fund foundations such as the Wonder Woman Foundation. It also means
that I get into educational area. Our latest foray took the Wayne
foundation in the archeological area.”

My mother wanted know
what archeology was. I said, “It is the science that man’s world
has of digging into the past. The choose an area and start to dig.
What they hope to find is artifacts such as pottery, weapons, bones,
and other objects that the hopes are they will tell the archeologists
about the people in the area.”

Bruce spoke again, “
Well, Wayne Tech was sponsoring a dig outside Sparta or as you might
know it, Lacedaemon we were digging and we found this.” He had the
box on his bed and opened it. He took out something that was wrapped
in a golden piece of silk. When he unwrapped it we saw what appeared
to be a set of Amazonian armor. He said, “I know that on most sets
of armor there is a crest. I have seen it on Diana’s and
Phillipus’s. For me, when I saw this armor I knew that I had to
return it to its rightful owners. I know that Pallas crafted it a
would probably know whose armor this would be.” My mother said,
“Mr. Wayne, I thank you for returning this armor to the Amazons. I
will talk to Pallas to see if she can tell me who this armor
belongs.”

Before she left, my
mother asked Phillupus to step out of the room. She said, “I
understand that my daughter.” He said, “Yes.” She continued,
“You do know the Amazons history in regards to men.” He said
that he was. She went on to say that if hurt me in any way, shape,
or form, she would find him and do some very unpleasant things to
him. Sufficed to say that I was mortified at what she had done.

As we were leaving the
room and Epione and her nurse, Euclea went in and were telling him
what was going to go on in terms of his treatment.

I was hanging back
quietly seething at what my mother had done. Phillipus came to me
and said, “I can see, Princess, that you are angry, why?” I
said, “She played the parent and threatened Bruce with some pretty
unpleasant things.” She said, “I know you are mad but can you
understand why she did it.” I said, “I can, but was this the
correct time do this.” She said, “You are young, you have not
been around when her stubbornness.”

A few hours later, after
the day had come to an end, I had cornered her and was determined to
confront her about what she had said about the relationship between
Bruce and myself.

I asked if I could see
her in her office, she happened tp be visiting with Phillipus. It
was there that I said, “Mother, what is it that you think that you
were doing earlier.” Well it was then I went off on her.

I angrily said, “I
understand that you feel that you have to be a mother but I an a
grown woman. I also understand that you are more experience in
matters of the heart and you don’t want me to be hurt but I have to
learn sometimes. Let me explain something to you. I have put in a
lot of work on this relationship and want to see it through to its
conclusion. It took me a great deal of time to get him to accept
that he has strong feelings for me and to act on them. It is not for
you to say if this is relationship is a success or a failure, it is
for the fates and Aphrodite. I would kindly request that you would
leave well enough alone.”

It was then that the
aforementioned goddess of love appeared.

She said, “Hippolyta,
Diana is correct it what she has said. I have no problem with this
relationship but I will not be directly involved, I, too, will let
the fates decide the matter.”

Aphrodite disappeared.

My mother, being suitably
chastised, said, “My daughter, I am sorry for what I did. I know
that you think it was wrong of me to do it but I would probably do it
again. I do not want to see you go through the pain that myself and
your older sisters did but I also understand that making mistakes is
a part of life.”

I said to her, “I
understand but it is my life and I should be able to make my own
mistakes even if they are the same ones that you and the older
sisters have made.”

I left my mother and
Phillipus to get back to their conversation and went to see Epione
about Bruce’s treatment. I asked here what she did.

She said, “I have used
the purple ray on him and he is resting comfortably.”

I said, “I think that I
wish to sit with him awhile. Please have the palace cook send me
something to eat.” She said that she would do it.

I went in to sit with him
and about an hour later one of my mothers aides came in rolling a
tray. After she left, I opened the firs tray and found that it was
some venison. On the second was a pretty sizable salad and on the
third was an assortment of fruits. It was then I heard Bruce stir.

He asked, “Is that deer
that I smell?”

I said, “Why, yes it
is. Would you like some?”

He said, “Yes, I
would.”

As we were eating, we
talked.

He asked, “I knew that
Themysciran cuisine was good, but I had no idea how good this would
be.” I said, “What? You did not believe me. You know me too
long, have you ever known me to lie.”

He said, “You are not
to the extent of Clark, but no.”

As we continued to eat
and converse he said, “I guess we start my rehabilitation
tomorrow?”

I said, “If you wish.”

So, after we finished
eating, he asked me to bring him one of his suitcases. When I did
and he opened it, it was loaded down with books.

He asked, “Diana, would
it at all be possible for you to get some material from the Amazons
library?” I said that I would try.

I left him to read and I
went off to see Penelope to see if I could get Bruce ti materials
that he wanted. He just could not stop being himself, meaning he had
to know everything about his surroundings. I walked into the library
and when Penelope saw me she says, “Hello Princess, how may I help
yow?”

I said, “Well,
Penelope, the man that I have brought here to here wants some of the
books in this library to glean some information about our past.”

She went off to the older
transcripts and she asked, “Will he be able to read these?”

I said, “The man is
incredibly bright. He would visit me at the embassy and would see
some of the papers which were on my desk, he would ask me if the
papers said would he thought. The more he did this, the more he was
able to understand our language. It has gotten so bad that, you see
when I first arrived in man’s world I was able to curse in our
language and get away with it, no he chastises me for cursing and I
have to watch my language around him.”

When I got the books he
wanted, I headed back to bring them to him. When I arrived, he was
reading a copy of the ‘Catcher In The Rye’. When walked in, he
looked up and

I said, “Here the books
that you wanted.”

I left and went back to
the Palace, took a bath, and retired for the evening.

My mother came to my room
and we talked some. She asked, “ How is he doing?”

I said, “His spirits
are high and he he looking forward to getting started.”

She said, “When will
you, Epione, Euclea. And Philippus start with him?”

I said that we would
start tomorrow and he would work hard and get better fast.

Because I wanted to take
such an active role in his rehabilitation, I asked my mother if it
would be possible if she could appoint a temporary replacement for
me as my role as Wonder Woman and as the ambassador of Themyscira.
She said that it would be possible but she would have to get
permission from the senate.

I told Epione, Euclea,
and Philippus to let Bruce know what was going on.

Within the hour, we were
sitting in the senate chambers and listening to the debate. On one
side were the ones who said that I was the ambassador and Wonder
Woman and that was the way that it would be. Fortunately for my
mother and I, there was a majority that was willing to move our
society forward and to temporarily appoint me a replacement. After
my mother won the vote in the senate she appointed our sister
Lysandra.

I went back to the island
where we had Bruce held up. When I arrived, I noticed that Bruce
was walking around and both Epione and Euclea had surprised looks on
their faces. I looked at them and then at him and back again, then I
said, “You have to understand who this man is. He is as stubborn
as my mother and myself. He has a strong will. He is driven. The
murder of his parents put him on the road to being Batman and when he
made that decision, he set out on a road that made it easier for him
to become what he is. Unlike me, he became a scholar at a young age.
Look at the books he brought with him. These books include such
things as Tzun Tzu’s The Art of War, a book on the Battle at
Thremopylae, and Books on American generals Douglas MacArthur and
William Tecumseh Sherman.” Epione asked, “Thermopylae sounds
like it is a Greek name. Is it?” I said, “It is and it is was
an amazing battle. It happened several thousand years after we had
sequestered ourselves here on Themyscira. The Greeks were going
against the Persians and the Persians had the numbers advantage.
They were pushed back into a pass that was a good position for it was
a narrow pass. Even though it was a big loss for the Greeks it served
to fire them up so they would be able take on the Persians and win.”

I also told her about
other people from the history of his country and what the founders of
his country believed.

Euclea had, by this time,
finished with his therapy and she and Epione left the room.

After Epione and Euclea
left I went in to see Bruce. He was resting while he was reading one
of the books that I brought him from the Amazon Archive and the
library.

I asked, “How was your
therapy?”

He looked up and said,
“It went fine.”

He asked me, “How did
it go with your mother.”

I replied, “Well, after
I read her the riot act last night for dating you, we recently went
before the senate to see if we could find a temporary replacement for
me as Wonder Woman.”

He asked, “What was
decided?”

I replied, “It was
decided that one of my sisters, Lysandra, would be the Amazon that
would be the replacement.”

He asked, “Why are you
wanting to do this?”

I answered, “Why would
I not want to do it?”

He said, “Don’t
answer a question with a question.” I replied, “I want to be
here throughout your entire recovery.”

We ended up talking until
I was called back to the palace to meet with mother. When we met,
she told me that there were going negotiations between us and the
Bana-Mighdall.

I said, “Doing this
will be what Man’s world call a “long haul.”

My mother asked, “What
does this mean?”

I said, “It means it
will be a long, hard process with some pot-holes along the way.”

I stepped outside and saw
Donna coming up the hall. She said that she had met with mother
earlier and they had the very same conversation.

We decided to do some
catching up. Since she is a friend with Dick, I thought that she
would be able to give an update on how Dick was doing in his
temporary job as Batman. Before we started, I felt that Bruce would
want to know this as well, so we headed to where Bruce was. We
walked in and saw that Bruce was doing some callisthenics.

I said, “Hello, Bruce.
Donna has a report from Gotham.” When I said this, he,
immediately, perked up.

We sat down and Donna
spoke. “As soon as you left, there was a riot at Arkham Asylum.”

He asked, “What
happened?”

She said, “He got most
of them back in to their cells.”

He asked, “Which one?”

She knew that he meant
which ones had escaped. To that, she answered, “ The Joker, Two
Face, and The Mad Hatter.”

She continued, “He has,
to this point, recaptured Two Face and The Hatter.”

He asked, “And Joker?”

She said, “As you are
well aware, that man, if that is what one might call him, has went
underground. Dick has found clues to where he is but when he had
gotten to the places the clues have lead him to.” Bruce said, “I
have the utmost confidence in Dick’s ability to do the job and he
will eventually catch up to Joker and put him back where he belongs.”

The next day was the
first day that he was able to start to work out and get on the road
to the cowl. I had to go back to the Justice League satellite to do
my stint on monitor duty and to give Lysandra the full tour of the
Satellite, to introduce her to the others, and to show her what her
duties would be at the Embassy. At the embassy, she would have the
help of the entire staff and of Donna, as well.

As I returned to
Themyscira, I went to make my report to my mother. I fond that she
was visiting with Epione while getting an update on Bruce. When I
arrived at where we had him hold up, I was not surprised to see that
Bruce was in one of his marathon training sessions. There were many
times when I walked into the bat-cave training room when I saw how he
trains. I went into the room and saw that Bruce was working with an
Amazonian sword. I looked at my mothers face and saw the surprised
look on her face.

She said, “He has
wonderful technique.”

I said, “Of course he
has, he has trained with some of the top martial artists in Man’s
world.”

She continued, “He has
been training for eight hours straight.”

I said, “I have seen
him go for longer periods of time.

There have been times
when he has asked me to spar with him and we have went for hours
before we agreed to call it a tie.”

I spoke up and said,
“Bruce.”

He turned around and
said, “Diana, I see that you are back from installing your
temporary replacement.”

I said, “Yes, Honey. I
am back”

My mother asked me,
“Daughter, why is it that he needed what he calls “weights.””

I said, “Those are use
for training for him to get himself in good enough shape to do what
he does on a nightly bases.”

I went on to say that is
not like me and Superman who are immortal a near-immortal. They
stayed around for another hour or so then they bent back to the
palace to start the preparations for the resuming of the negotiations
between us and the Bana.

It was not long after
they left in which he made the decision to quit for the day. We went
and found a hot spring for him to get cleaned up. After this, we
went back his room where I had, had another nice dinner for him.

I said, “I think the
way you train has surprised my mother and the others.”

He arched his eyebrow and
said, “I thought the Queen had seen everything.”

I added, “I tried to
warn them about how hard you go in your training sessions.”

As the days grew into
weeks and the weeks months, it was growing into a time when we felt
that Epione was going to say he could leave. Because of this, I
could tell that he was getting excited.

It was a usual day, Bruce
had finished his training for the day as Pallas and I arrived.

I said, “Bruce,
remember the set of armor that your company unearthed?”

He answered, “Yes.”

I continued, “Pallas
has been doing some research and could not find out exactly who this
armor was made for.”

He said, “I, kind of,
figured that you would not be able to do it for the armor is missing
its crest.” Pallas said, “I thought I would be able to tell due
to the way it was made, but I could not.”

I said, “I have told
Pallas and my mother how you have collected many a set of ancient
armor.”

He said, “I am guessing
the you wish to give it to me .”

I said, “Yes.”
Pallas spoke up and said, “I am here to take your physical
measurements. All Amazonian armor is meant to be used.”

He said, “ Thank you, I
am honored.” She took his measurements and left to do her work.
It was then that we hear an alarm.

As we were hearing the
alarm. Epione had just given Bruce a clean bill of health. As Epione
was leaving, Philippus came charging in.

I asked, “Philippus,
what is going on with the alarm?”

Philippus said,
“Princess, it is your mother. She has been kidnaped.”

I said, “What.”

She said, “You must
come with me back to the palace where you can be safe.”

I added, “You may want
to led Bruce investigate for I am sure that he will be able to figure
out who has taken my mother.” She said, “We will try anything.

Bruce was already in his
bat-suit and growled, “Do not touch anything until I get there.”

She was taken aback by
the change in his demeanor. She asked me, “Does his personality
really change this much when he puts his armor on?” I said, “Yes
it does and so does his methods.”

He turned me and said,
“Go to the Javelin and radio for Clark.”

I asked, “Why do you
want him?”

he said, “I want him to
come a build me a crime lab because I do not want to show disrespect
in the investigation by taking any Amazonian property, other than my
armor gift, off of the island. Also tell him to take Lucius Fox and
see if I can get some computers for it as well.”

After I had made the
communication with Kal, Bruce and I left and went over to the palace.
He went into my mother’s room and started to do what he does best.
The first thing that he saw was a broken window. He picked up a
couple of the shards of glass and put them in little plastic bags.
There was a huge pool of blood on the floor by the window. He took a
sample of the blood. There two swords on the floor as well. They
each had blood on them. He took samples from them as well. Outside
the window there was what appeared to be a piece of fabric.

He went to pick it up, I
said, “Do not waste your time, it is a piece of my mothers
nightgown. It was obvious that she had put up a fight.

Philippus asked, “Why
is he doing all of this?”

I said, “This is how
they do it in Man’s World.. When they are investigating a
kidnapping or a murder, they make sure that all of the evidence is
there.”

When we had arrived back
at the island where we had put Bruce to heal, we found that Kal was
there and had already finished Building the building. Bruce, Kal,
and I went in and started to process all of the evidence that we had
gathered. We looked, first, at the blood sample that came from by
the window. Bruce had taken three samples of this blood.

He said, “All of this
came from one person.”

I asked, “How do you
know?”

He said, “It is all the
same type and the DNA is a near perfect match.”

I said, “It must belong
either to a Giant or a Cyclops.

He continued, “We will
need to get blood samples from all of the Amazons from on Themyscira,
to rule out if they were the ones that participated in the
abduction.”

I walked over to him and
gave him my arm.

He took the blood sample
and said, “Your blood is almost an exact match for the blood on
this unknown sword. Therefore, it is a certainty that this is your
mother’s blood. “I guess that this rules me out.”

He said, “Yes.”

I had Philippus and the
women that guarding Bruce come in and give blood. I, then, said to
“General, please notify the senate on what has happened and tell
them that they will have to do the same thing you ha the guards have
done,” I summoned Epione and her staff, explained the situation,
and had them give blood.

When Philippus returned
she said, “Everything is set.”

She left to go help
organize our other Amazon sisters. We had Kal travel, via a site to
site teleport, to the Watchtower to get some more supplied. He came
back with the supplies and also with Shayera and Barbara.

As we were finishing the
task of taking of blood from my Amazon sisters, Philippus and I took
a meeting from a contingent from our Bana sisters.

Euboea said, “My
General and my Princess, we have a diplomatic envoy from our Bana
sisters.” I said, “Please introduce them.” S

he said, “ This is
Princess Urbi, General Maat, and the princesses aid Haqikah.”

Princess Urbi went down
to a knee and said, “ Your Majesty, I bring news from Bana
Mighdall.” I said, “Pleas rise. What is the urgent news.”

Their general said, “We
have a rogue Amazon.”

I spoke, “I know that
all of our Amazons are accounted for, that means the rogue is from
the Bana.” She continued, “Yes, Your Highness. Her name is
Echidna.”

I asked, “Do you know
where she is?”

The General said, “No
we do not, but we are looking.” I asked, “Did you know that she
and another has taken our Queen.”

Their princess said, “We
wish to find her as well and wish to help locate her.” I said,
“This is unexpected. We accept all the help all of the help we can
get.”

I, then, left to go and
to meet with Bruce. I left Philippus and Haqikah to plam put the
search for this rogue Amazon. We had decided to start the search the
next day.

So, I had landed on the
island and saw that Barbara and Shayera outside.

I asked, “What is
wrong?”

Barbara said, “Oh,
nothing. We are done for the day.” I said, “We need to meet.”

We walked into the lab
and saw that Kal and Bruce were cleaning up. I said, “There is
news.”

Kal asked, “What is
it?”

I said, “Philippus and
I have just taken a meeting with a contingent of our Bana sisters and
they have said that there is a rogue Amazon.” Bruce asked, “It
is from their side of the island?” I added, “Yes.” I went
on, “Her name is Echidna.”

Barbara asked, “So,
this means the search will begin tomorrow?”

I said, “Yes it does.”

I went on to say, “What
I will suggest tomorrow is that Shayera, Kal, and I will aid in the
search from the air. There will be four sets of Amazons searching
from the ground. Bruce will lead one. Philippus will lead one.
Princess Urbi, of the Bana will lead one. General Haqikah will lead
one.”

I then said, “I have
arranged for everyone to stay at the Palace.”

We took off for the
palace.

When we landed, it was
decided that we would have small meal and retire for the night.

After everyone ate, we
split up and headed to our personal quarters. Let me amend this, I
had my aid escort Bruce to my personal quarters.

Because we did not know
how this search would turn out, I thought that it would be the exact
time for us to consummate our relationship.

After we had rested for a
few hours, then we sat up and talked for awhile.

He had me call one of my
aids and said, “Go to my quarters on the other island, look on the
table, you will find a small wooden box, pleas bring it back here.”

She said, “Yes sir.”
About a half hour later she returned with the box.

He said, “Thank you.”

Then he had the aid go
and get Clark, Shayera, Barbara, Donna and Philippus. Before the had
arrived, he put on some sweat pants and I pulled on one of his
sweatshirts. He waited until they all arrived. When they did he
went down on one knee. Philippus and Donna did not know what was
going on. I had lived in Man’s World and seen some movies. I
knew that when a man did this I started to cry.

Through my tears, I could
see the questioning looks on the faces of Philippus and Donna but I
could also see that Shayera and Barbara were crying.

Bruce, then, said, “We
have been dating for a fare amount of time and I think it is time
that we become one. Diana, Princess of Themyscira, Will you marry
me?” He opened the little wooden box and I saw what appeared to be
ring.

It was a well crafted
ring and had a nice sized diamond in it. I looked down with tears in
my eyes and said, “With every fiber of my heart, soul, and body, I
say to you, Bruce Wayne of Gotham City, yes I will marry you.”

After he placed the ring
on my finger, Shayera and Barbara rushed over to me a hugged me and I
heard Clark say to Bruce, “Welcome to the life. I am sure you will
make each other happy.”

I overheard Bruce tell
Clark, “Kent, You had better not be planning a bachelor party.”

I saw Barbara walk over
to Donna and Philippus to explain what this was.

Then I saw that Clark was
leaving the room. I followed him. I saw him put his hand to his
ear. I hear him say, “Wally, Bruce just popped the question to
Diana. I will tell him congratulations for you. He has told me that
he does not want me to plan a bachelor party for him, but he did not
say that anyone could not. You and John should do it. Clark out.”

I said to Clark, “You
do know what he will do if he is to find out.”

Kal said, “Yes I do,
but I think I can take it.”

By the time everyone had
congratulated us it was time for breakfast. Then we would get
started on the search for my mother.

A few hours after Bruce
had asked me to marry him, we were out on the search. For everyone to
keep in touch, Bruce had handed out leagued communicators.

It had been more that a
few hours since we started to search, but we had found nothing. Then
there was a message from Barbara. She said, “Diana, we are in the
magical areas and we have found what the Amazons tell me is the
necklace that was around he neck.”

Bruce said, “We will be
right there as soon as we can.”

When we arrived no only
did we see that her necklace was there, but there seemed to have been
a struggle. It also seemed that they had taken my mother off to the
South. It appears they are headed toward Doom’s Doorway which is
the door the underworld.

We made what Bruce has
said is a “beeline” towards Doom’s Doorway.

When we arrived there, we
found an army of dead warriors. Just before we were to start
fighting, Persephone appeared. She said, “You will have to go into
the underworld and deal with Felix Faust again.”

I said, “I thought
Hades was going to torture him for a few thousand years.”

Persephone said, “That
was true but Faust found a way to get around it and has cast Hades
out again.”

I radioed Shayera,
“Shayera, looks like we will have to go and put Hades back on his
throne again.” She flew in with Bruce.

I said to Bruce, “Bruce,
you and the rest with have to stay out here and keep this undead army
occupied. Shayera and I will have to go an put Hades back on his
throne again.”

Then Persephone said,
“Princess, Faust has your mother.”

Bruce said, “So that is
the plan, please be careful”

Shayera said, “Don’t
worry Bruce, we have been there before and done the job well.”

He said, “Do not be so
flip.

This seem like it is
going to be a hard job to do.” I said, “ It will be a hard job
but it is a job that can get done and will be done.”

At this point we split up
and Bruce headed off to go help the others and Shayera, Huqikah and I
went into the underworld. The reason Huqikah came was she said that
the Bana wanted a chance at punishing Echidna according to the laws
of the Bana.

As we entered the
underworld we saw Abnegazar. He saw Shayera and I and that my hand
was on my lasso ans said, “You won’t need that, I will take you
to where they have Hades. It is the place he was the last time, the
frozen bowels of the underworld, but you will have to get him
yourselves and this time he has Hades guarded with some other demons.
This means you will have to fight to get him.”

Abnegazar took us
directly to the place where Hades was being held. As soon as we had
arrived, he was gone. It was not totally unexpected that he would be
for he had said that he did say that his job was to get us there and
he was not going to fight.

General Haqikah asked,
“What is the plan Princess?”

I said, “You and
Shayera will try to keep me the demons off of me while I try to free
Hades.”

The general drew her
sword and Shayera readied her mace. Then they charged and started
their attack. I flew, in a high arc, to where he was. I was not
expecting that Shayera and the general would defeat the demons by
themselves but they did. I tried to do what I did last time and
break the a punch but it did not work.

Hades told me, “Diana,
Faust has reinforced the chains with magic. I saw Shayera doing a
fly-by looking for other demons I gave her a whistle. She asked,
“Diana, what is it?”

I answered, “Apparently,
Faust prepared for me and has strengthened the chains against me.”

She asked, “I guess
that you want me to try to use my mace to disrupt the magic.”

I said, “That would be
the plan.” She flew up as high as she could and started on a power
dive. She had the mace over her head and she threw it. It hit the
chains and they broke.

I said to Hades, “Why
is it that you can not stay on your throne?”

He said, “That Faust is
a smart crafty evil person.”

No matter what I did, he
was patient he found a way to get away from me.

He, then went to my
recent rebuilt library and found a way to take my throne, exile me,
and strengthen my chains against Diana’s strength.”

He, then, used hsi magic
to get us back to his throne room. Let me say this, we did not get
into the throne room because it was being guarded with several
demons. Hades snapped his fingers, and the immediately switched
side. He took us to the underside of the throne room ans showed us a
door. This door, he said, was a secret entrance to his throne room.

We went through this door
and came out behind the throne and sneaked up behind him. We also saw
that he had built another throne, which we assumed was for Echidna.

I saw the general go and
grab Echidna by the neck and throttle her. She did not kill her.
Echidna threw her hand off and they started to fight.

Our fight began, as well.

Both fights were long and
hard but we won both of them.

I said to Hades, “Make
sure you keep this guy under control for I do not want to come back
here.”

It was then that we took
our leave and headed back to Themyscira.

After we had finished
putting Hades back on the throne, we decided to go one back to the
world. We had a much easier time go back were we were from the when
we were headed there. It was the four of us, Echidna, Shayera,
Haqikah, and myself. I had decided to tie Echidna in my lasso.

As soon as we returned to
Themyscira, we saw that Mother had been rescued. I turned Echidna
over Urbi and her entourage to be taken back to the Bana for her to
put on trial for her crime.

As it turned out, they
had, had mother in a cave on the left side of the doorway.

As I looked over Clark,
Barbara, Philippus, and Barbara, I knew something very bad had
happened. I asked, “Where is Bruce.”

It was then that I saw
Barbara. Her cowl was off and tears were streaming down her face. I
felt a lump in my throat.

My mother said, “I am
so sorry, Diana. The man that you were to be joined to has given his
life in rescuing me and defending Themyscira.”

When we had returned to
the palace, there was a meeting that took place and the senate was
called into session. As Barbara, Clark, Shayera, and I sat in the
back of the senate chambers, what happened next truly surprised us.

My mother said, “My
sisters of the senate, I have a proposal.”

One of the senators said,
“What is your proposal, my queen.”

My mother said, “A few
years we had adopted Aresia. The man who rescued her ended up dying
because his heart gave out on him. I buried him in an unmarked
grave. I wish to honor this man, Bruce Wane also known to man’s
world as The Batman, with a full Themysciran military funeral and
burial.” Another senator, Alcina, said, “This is a surprise. We
need to debate this.”

It did not take long for
them to debate. The senate came back quick and said that it was OK
for the this to happen.

It was then that Clark,
Shayera, Barbara, mother, and I that we would return to Gotham to
tell the rest of the bat-clan what has happend.

When we arrived at Wayne
Manor, we called Tim, Dick, Wally, J’onn, and John.

0I said, “We have some
extremely bad news.”

Wally asked, “Where is
Bats.”

I said, “He has died in
the defense of Themyscira.”

Dick asked, “Where is
his body.”

I said, “My mother has
decided to give him a full Themysciran funeral and burial.”

Tim said, “Then, what
are we going to do here.”

Clark said, “We will
have one closed casked funeral for Bruce Wayne.”

He continued and said,
“The League will hold a League Funeral for him at my fortress.”

Plans had been made for
Dinah and he team, The Birds of Prey to take the Patrolling of Gotham
while Dick, Tim, and Barbara will be coming with us to Themyscira.
Alfred will be coming as well.

We immediately left. In
the Javelin were Clark, dressed in a black Superman suit, John,
J’onn, Shayera, Wally, Lois Lane, and Linda Park. The last two
were to cover the funeral for their respective news agencies. When
Perry White asked why Clark Kent could not cover it, Lois said that
He would be busy and would not be able to concentrate on his job.
This was partially true but Clark would talk to her about it later.

As soon as returned to
Themyscira, the procession would begin. Up until that point Bruce’s
Body would lie in repose. It had also been agreed upon that he would
be buried in his Bat-Suit. The amazons considered it his armor and
thought it as showing a great amount of respect to be buried in ones
armor. Usually, a dead amazon would be burned in a pyre but even
though we considered him an amazon, I thought that it would be the
correct thing to do would be to hold to the ways of man’s world in
respects to the ways they do funerals and burials. Therefore, he
would be only the second man to be buried here on Themyscira.

It had also been decided
that we would have a gravestone. We had our artisans carve on out of
stone. On it, it would say “Here lies, Bruce Wayne, Known to man’s
world as The Batman. He came here to rest and recover and helped in
the defense of Themyscira.” That was on the one side. On the
other side it would say Bruce Wayne, born of Thomas and Martha
Wayne.”

As a show of respect to
the rest of the founding members of the League, it was also decided
that the official funeral would not begin until they had the chance
to view the body.

On the way back to
Themyscira, Clark had told me that at one time, Lois had dated Bruce.
When we arrived back at the island, I had decided that I would be
by Lois’s side when she saw the body.

I think this was a very
good idea because when she saw him, her shoulders slumped, her head
bowed, and she began to cry. Clark saw it and came put his arm
around her shoulders.

I heard Linda say to
Wally, “I knew this was a possibility of happening but I was not
prepared for the emotions.”

He asked, “Does this
change the way that you feel about me?”

She answered, “No, not
really.”

He asked, “Why not?”

She said, “Because I
know that the businesses you are in are inherently dangerous and
Death is always a possibility.”

He said, “This is one
of the main reasons that I love you.”

After the Amazons had
given us time to view the body, The burial services began.

Then there was a
procession to where we were going to bury him.

My mother spoke and said,
“Ladies and gentlemen, fellow amazons, and honored guests, I
welcome you to Themyscira. We are here today to pay honor to a man
who has many times defended this island and done it unselfishly.
Everyone here knows the history of our people and why we, minus
Diana, have a big dislike of everything male. This fact did not
deter my daughter, the princess, in bringing the League here to help
her in defeating the evil one named Felix Faust.”

She stopped for a minute
to drink a glass of water.

She continued, “At the
time, I had a problem with her bringing them here. Later, I grew to
understand that she had no choice. She was going to come back to
mend fences with man and the rest of here sisters, and he found us
turned to stone.”

She stopped to take
another drink and a breath.

She finished by saying,
“After we had sent Hades back to Tartarus along with Faust, I
recognized that it was wrong of me to dislike the men of the league,
I had found that they were and are honorable men. That is why I
honored them with our highest battle award. Then he has played a
roll in my rescue from the aforementioned Faust. This is after he
had come here to recover from injuries he had suffered do to torture
by some very evil men. When he had heard of me being taken, he
immediately stopped his preparations to go back to his city and
started to what he calls an investigation into my disappearance.
When my location was found, he was one of the first ones to go into
battle against Faust’s troops. That was when he lost his head. I
thank my daughter for bringing him here for I believe if she had not,
I might possibly be dead.”

We bowed our heads and
said a prayer.

Then Philippus stood up
to speak.

Philippus said, “The
first time that I saw the man the princess had fallen in love with,
I, like the queen, did not think very much of him. It was not until
I was ordered to help him train, because of the injuries he had
suffered, to return to his city to be its protector.”

She stopped for a breath
and then she finished.

She spoke again, “The
respect that I gained is from watching him train. His training is
every bit as rigorous as ours is. Then he does great work in helping
in the recovering the Queen.

When she finished, John
created, with his ring, seven guns. With these guns, he said he was
going to give Bruce a twenty-one gun salute.

few days later, we found
ourselves Back in Gotham at another funeral for Bruce. My mother
felt like she had to be there. After all, Bruce had been helping me
with some of the charitable organizations I have been involved in.
Also, it fits because when Kal had “died” she was there for me as
well.

Also there was Kal’s
mother, Martha Kent, was there for his support.

We also had seen
Commissioner Gordon was there as a mourner and as security as well.
He did not know that he worked with Bruce in Bruce’s night job.
Bruce, also, gave huge sums of money to the Gotham City Police
Department.

If the people there knew
about the bad blood between Bruce and Dick, it would have surprised
to see him step up with a eulogy.

He said, “I do not know
if everyone here knows my story. When I was young there was the
murder of my parents. He adopted me an took me in. He essentially
made me his son. For that, I thank him. We had our disagreements
and I eventually left him to go to find myself. I ended up living in
Bludhaven. I had a big grudge against him and I am happy to say that
thanks to Tim that I had put it into they past. I had also,
somewhat, reconciled with him.”

It was then that Tim
stepped up to the microphone.

He said, “I came from a
much more of a hard luck case. My father was a two-bit criminal. He
got hooked in with Two-Face and it was the wrong thing to do because
he ended up being murdered by Two-Face. Later on when I first met
him, Two-Face was going to poison the town and kill half the town.
He got me in touch with Batman and The-Bat got to work if putting
puke-face back in jail. I thank him for what he has done for me.”

Commissioner Gordon the
came up to say a little something.

The Commissioner said, “I
am here to represent the GCPD. We, the department, thank The Wayne
Policeman’s Foundation for all of the help we have received. Mr.
Wayne was one of the best people that was ever birthed in the history
of Gotham. Thomas and Martha Wayne, for their short time of raising
him did a fine job.”

We all headed off to the
church where there was a closed casket funeral. The reason for this
was Bruce’s body was buried on Themyscira.

After the church service,
we went to the Wayne Crypt and buried the coffin.

After this, Commissioner
came to me and told me that the GCPD had put together a remembrance
party and wanted us to appear at it.

A few days after the
Gotham City we the League had a funeral on the Watchtower. Clark had
made a special coffin for us to use in the ceremony.

What he planned to do was
to, after the ceremony we would launch it into the sun.

There were a great number
of the Leaguers on the Watchtower to pay their respects.

After all of the speeches
were made, we launched the coffin into the sun.

Immediately after the
launch, we all adjourned to the many rooms that were designated as
the commissaries. This is where we would hold the remembrance party.

We had all kinds of
laughs at Bruce’s idiosyncracies.

After it was all over, as
it ended up, it was Bruce’s turn on monitor duty. There were many
people that were willing to step up and take this particular shift.
I said, “Thanks for the offers, but I think I will take the shift.”

As we walked out, I heard
Kal tell Lois, “Honey, I think I will stay.”

She asked, “Why?”

He said, “Diana really
has not grieved. I think I will stay, just in case she needs a
shoulder to cry on.”

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I really enjoyed this novel. It gives us a view of what could be if we really tried.Also that there's nothing wrong with loving our LORD and our fellow humans. couldn't wait to get to each new chapter (mission). Thanks, Joe!

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